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For those of you following my blog, you know I'm a fan of "graphical response" systems that provide rapid feedback and increase student engagement in class. One of my favorite FREE tools for enabling graphical response is InkSurvey , a beta web application from the Colorado School of Mines...
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Joshua Holden ( Rose-Hulman , mathematics faculty) presented a very interesting poster at WIPTE this year, "Math in Your Hands: Integrating the Use of Maple with the Collaborative Use of Wireless Tablet PCs"... From Joshua's new blog , he writes about his poster: This poster is a preliminary...
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Dr. Kuldeep Rawat has been the Principal Investigator for a 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant at Elizabeth City State University (North Carolina, USA). Their goals was to enhance student learning by increasing the "interactivity" of courses such as Engineering Technology, Circuits, and...
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Dr. Kiron Sharma, professor at Farleigh Dickenson University, received an HP Technology for Teaching grant in 2007. The computer science faculty are using DyKnow software - and the project team made a short video describing their experience. In Dr. Sharma's own words, "DyKnow basically makes...
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I often get asked what type of Tablet PC software is available for use by faculty and students. Though I posted similar information nearly two years ago (see " Clickers on Steroids " ), I thought it's too important a topic NOT to repeat. Here's a sampling of what is being used by HP...
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Jeff Clark at Lawrence University of Wisconsin is leading an HP Technology for Teaching project that is redesigning courses in Environmental Science. The participating faculty and students are using Tablet PCs in the field, and Classroom Presenter software in the classroom. Jeff reports that how Classroom...
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With support from an HP Technology for Teaching grant, Professors Monson Hayes and Elliot Moore at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Savannah, are leading a project entitled "Enhancing Distributed Learning Environments through Tablet PC Technology." The participating faculty are using DyKnow...
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Ananda Gunawardena, HP Technology for Teaching Principal Investigator for the Adaptive Book project at Carnegie Mellon, has developed a fascinating tablet-enabled math system. If you know any tablet-using teachers in the primary grades (K-8), anywhere in the world , feel free to let them know they are...
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If you need a good chuckle, take a look at this “news-reel-esque” movie from DyKnow. I would have laughed even harder at the notion of “The Dangers of Mindless Note Taking”, if there wasn’t so much truth to it… Jim Vanides, B.S.M.E, M.Ed. Program Manager - Worldwide Higher Education Philanthropy Hewlett...
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Here's an update on the IEEE article: The entire September 2007 issue of Computer magazine is available as a free PDF download... The IEEE Computer Society is providing free access to the on-line version of the magazine for one month. You may download the magazine as a PDF file (4.6 MB) from for one...
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We already know that transformations in teaching and learning do not occur magically by simply inserting technology into a classroom. Excellent instruction PLUS the right technology must work in tandem for the magic to be unleashed. An article by Jeremy Roschelle, et al, explores this in more detail...
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I frequently get asked for examples of how tablet PCs can be used in the classroom. In addition to my own “Gallery” of higher education projects funded by HP grants, there is a second edition of what I call The WIPTE Books – featuring exemplary papers presented at Purdue earlier this summer… This most...
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We just had a fantastic HP Online Speaker Series presentation by Marilyn Reba and Roy Pargas of Clemson University, discussing " Using Tablet PCs and Web-based Software to Enable Active Learning in Mathematics Classrooms"... If you missed the session or want to share it with your colleagues, the University...
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HP Online Speaker Series Higher Education Technology for Teaching 24 July 2007 10:00 – 11:00 am Pacific Time “Using Tablet PCs and Web-based Software to Enable Active Learning in Mathematics Classrooms” I am pleased to announce our next online webinar! Please join us on Tuesday, 24 July, 10:00am – 11...
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I was recently asked if a Tablet PC could be used as an alternative to "lined whiteboards" in a music classroom. My first thought, of course, was, "What could be better?!" I remember the music classes I took "back in the day". The teacher had a chaulk holder that had 5 fingers to hold 5 pieces of chaulk...